The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
ALAN BERSINIn the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There’s hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn’t have a cause or effect that’s generated abroad. Increasingly.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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